Test 2

Question 1

al-Mansur

Answer 1

second caliph who killed abu muslim and got rid of Abd allah making him retire created baghdad and took out descendants of ali

Question 2

Qadi

Answer 2

judge

Question 3

chamberlain

Answer 3

chief of staff

Question 4

zubayda

Answer 4

charitable wife of harun water from mecca to iraq

Question 5

al-Amin

Answer 5

elder brother who lost in civil war

Question 6

Tahir

Answer 6

general who supported Amin, descendants became Tahirids

Question 7

Ma’mun

Answer 7

younger brother who became caliph and made arabic the scientific language

Question 8

Mu’tasim

Answer 8

first who appoints slave army and built samara

Question 9

Abu Hanifa

Answer 9

legal scholar from Kufa

Question 10

Malik

Answer 10

legal scholar in Medina

Question 11

al-Shafi’i

Answer 11

legal scholar in egypt

Question 12

Mu’tazila

Answer 12

if god is eternal what about his attributes? is free will with god real?

Question 13

al-Ash’ari

Answer 13

7 eternal attributes, god creates our actions but we take responsibility

Question 14

Ali al-Rida

Answer 14

8 imam who was non abassid and a disaster

Question 15

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Answer 15

the 12th iman still in hiding

Question 16

Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya

Answer 16

woman so in love with god she never married real man

Question 17

al-Hallaj

Answer 17

lived in baghdad and got involved in politics got executed known for his outrageous statements

Question 18

Abu Nuwas

Answer 18

wine poetry that went well with music

Question 19

Ibn Ishaq

Answer 19

wrote biography on the prophet for al-Mansur

Question 20

Ibn S’ad

Answer 20

book on religious scholars and how words of prophet transmitted over time (recorded by generation)

Question 21

al-Tabari

Answer 21

wrote ten books on quran in order of year by year (quran commentary and history)

Question 22

anarchy of samara

Answer 22

slave armies of multiple caliph candidates waging war

Question 23

saffarids

Answer 23

defeated the Tahirids

Question 24

Zanj Revolt

Answer 24

slave revolt that sacked Basra

Question 25

Samanids in central asia

Answer 25

defeated the saffarids and controlled all of eastern lands and had no loyalty to abassids but not a threat

Question 26

al-Mu'tamid

Answer 26

caliph who held everything down in samara

Question 27

al-Mu'tadid

Answer 27

out protecting baghdad son of al-Muwaffaq and never was caliph

Question 28

'Adud al-Dawla

Answer 28

most powerful Buyid

Question 29

Muhammad al-Tusi

Answer 29

leading imani shi' scholar

Question 30

al-Mutanabbi

Answer 30

poet who wrote about Adawla Adud and Kafur (from egypt)

Question 31

Ibn Sina

Answer 31

book of healing and canon of medicine and was medical scholar

Question 32

al-Sarraj

Answer 32

master of suffism, book of shafts of light